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Privacy Policy

This following document sets forth the Privacy Policy for the Hindu Council of Australia website, http://www.hinducouncil.com.au and for http://www.deepavali.com.au

Hindu Council of Australia is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service experience. Hindu Council of Australia is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), which sets out a number of principles concerning the privacy of individuals.

 

Hindu Council of Australia (HCA)
1. We respect your privacy
    • HCA respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personalinformation.
    • “Personal information” is information we hold which is identifiable as being aboutyou.
2. Collection of personal information
  • HCA will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you enter onto our website, provided to us directly or given to us in otherforms.
  • You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send information, provide updates and process your product or service order. We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, when you provide information about your personal or business affairs, change your content or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, provide financial or credit card information, or communicate with our customersupport.
  • Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting withus.
3. How we collect your personal information
  • HCA collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically or in person, when you access our website and when we provide our services to you. We may receive personal information from third parties. If we do, we will protect it as set out in this PrivacyPolicy.
4. Use of your personal information
  • HCA may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information, updates and our services. We may also make you aware of new and additional products, services and opportunities available to you. We may use your personal information to improve our products and services and better understand yourneeds.
  • HCA may contact you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to telephone, email, sms or mail.
5. Disclosure of your personal information
  • We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of ourservices.
  • We may from time to time need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agencyrequest.
  • We may also use your personal information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of HCA, hinducouncil.com.au, its customers or thirdparties.
  • Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside ofAustralia.
  • If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the abovecircumstances.
  • By providing us with personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding handling your personalinformation.
6. Security of your personal information
  • HCA is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification anddisclosure.
  • The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this PrivacyPolicy.
7. Access to your personalinformation
  • You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). A small administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information. If you would like a copy of the information which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us atinfo@hinducouncil.com.au
  • We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the PrivacyAct.
8. Complaints about privacy
  • If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to Hindu Council of Australia.
  • We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
9. Changes to Privacy Policy
  • Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our PrivacyPolicy.
10. Website
  • When you visit our website

When you come to our website (www.hinducouncil.com.au) we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.

  • Cookies

We may from time to time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

  • Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyses website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
  • Third party sites

Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that HCA is not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.

 

Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. Your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here. 

 

GDPR Privacy Policy Snippets

Social Login

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

 

Facebook Comments

If you are using Facebook Comments feature of any of our plugin, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

 

GooglePlus Comments

If you are using GooglePlus Comments feature of any of our plugin, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Disqus Comments

If you are using Disqus Comments feature of any of our plugin, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

 

Facebook Comments Moderation

If you are using our Facebook Comments Moderation add-on at your website, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We collect the data related to the Facebook Comment you post, only from  your consent that you grant before posting Facebook Comment at our website. This data includes your Facebook account name, unique Facebook account identifier, unique identifier associated to the posted Facebook comment, unique open graph object identifier of the webpage at which you posted the comment, unique identifier associated to the parent comment if you reply to an existing comment. This data is used to show recent Facebook Comments made all over our website and/or to show the old comments made at non-SSL webpages before we moved our website to SSL. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

 

Facebook Comments Notifier

If you are using our Facebook Comments Notifier add-on at your website, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We send the Facebook Comment you post, to page/post author and/or website administrator via automated email, only from your consent that you grant before posting Facebook Comment at our website. This data includes just the  Facebook comment posted by you.

 

Social Analytics for Sharing 

If you are using our Social Analytics for Sharing add-on at your website, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share official buttons

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled any of these official buttons, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

 

Twitter Tweet official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Twitter Tweet official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

 

GooglePlus, GooglePlus Share official buttons

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled any of these official buttons, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Linkedin Share official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Linkedin Share official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

Pinterest Save official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Pinterest Save official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

 

Buffer official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Buffer official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use Buffer widget at our website to allow you to add our webpages to your Buffer account, which collects log data from your browser. This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain at which you are interacting with the widget, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://buffer.com/privacy

 

Xing Share official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Xing Share official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use Xing Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Xing and this let Xing collate data about you automatically by means of tracking, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

 

Reddit Badge official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Reddit Badge official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy

 

StumbleUpon Badge official button

If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled StumbleUpon Badge official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:

We use StumbleUpon Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy: http://www.stumbleupon.com/privacy

 

Contacting us

Hindu Council of Australia welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please contact us by any of the following means during business hours Monday to Friday.

Post: Attn: Privacy Policy,
Hindu Council of Australia,
17 The Crescent, Homebush NSW 2140

through Contact Us page.

 

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When is the next HCA Event?

At the Hindu Council of Australia, we endeavour to create a continuous stream of activities and projects to keep the community engaged and involved in working for each other. Click on EVENTS CALENDAR button to see our upcoming events.

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Projects

General Religious Education in Secondary Schools

Hindu Council has been involved with the NSW Department of School Education since 2003 in drafting the original syllabus which was introduced in 2005. Cambridge University Press published the textbook for the course covering all the five religions. In 2015 we were again consulted by the publishers when the updated version of the textbook was published.

Aboriginals and Hinduism

There is a lot of commonality between aboriginal spirituality and Hinduism.

ANZAC JAWAN remembrance

We were working on some time to create a history, a small team of Ashwani Jain,

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Hindu Council of Australia advocates issues affecting Hindu community

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It is a HINDU tradition to “walk to a pilgrim” on special events/occasions

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The Hindu religion is the third largest religion in Australia consisting of more than 684,002 followers. It is the fastest growing religion in Australia.

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This course is designed to provide an overview of Hindu Religion and is suitable for non-Hindus to gain a very brief understanding of the Hindu religion.

A brief syllabus of the course “Introduction to Hindu Religion” is given below.

Introduction (Sanatan dharma, Definitions, Denominations and Diversity, Unity, Colonial influences), Beliefs, Purusharthas, Philosophies, Karma, Moksha, Concept of God, Traditions, Symbols, Scriptures, Rituals and Ceremonies, Rites of Passage, Bhakti, Festivals, Pilgrimage, Varnas, Yoga, Ahimsa, Vegetarianism, Temples, Ashramas of Life, Sanyasa, , Attitude of others, Hindu Religion in Australia.

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Great organization, working towards reviving the Knowledge of Hinduism (World's oldest religion and who never invaded others) to bring harmony in the world. Having actually seen them operating a free kitchen and organising community events to make new migrants feel at home while appreciating Australian way of life. Great community work being delivered by people who don’t get paid do it
Atul Kushwaha
Having actually seen them operating a free kitchen and organising community events to make new migrants feel at home while appreciating Australian way of life. Great community work being delivered by people who don’t get paid do it
Simer Mayo
HCA has always been a wonderful platform and a great source of network for Indian migrants. I have always had a very good experience since I moved to Australia 25 years ago. There are a variety of activities continuously conducted by this organisation year after year in various areas like charities, food donations, age care, and predominately to pass on Hindu values to the future generations.
Shoba Deshikan
Kudos for the great work done so far to promote hindu culture customs and festivals in Australia and help the hindus from all around the world living in Australia to keep their traditions alive. Hope hindu council of Australia continues their great work in being one single voice for people with hindu faiths and feel proud Australians.
Ashish Khurana
Great community service done by organisation and its volunteers and management selflessly. Awesome holy place truly working on true Hinduism which is take everyone together and have prosperity of all and live in peace. Great job!
Narendra Patil
HCA has played pivotal role in developing an united Hindu community in Australia. It is at the forefront when it comes to helping wider community regardless of the social, economic and religious backgrounds via advise, networking, supporting, raising funds, etc.. I love the cultural events organised by HCA especially the Diwali Mela, Holi function and International Yoga Day. I wish all the best and urge to the community to join HCA and help strengthening Hindu community in Australia.
Nipesh Kothari
Hindu Council of Australia is an organisation selflessly working for Hindus in Australia and spreading the message of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - Whole World is a family. We need more people and organisations like these to truly spread the message of all Human beings living together as a family.
Aadi Kalkal
However i do not have any direct experience at this place but i do know some people/volunteers there working towards protecting our cultural values and traditions,Their contribution towards Hindu society is valuable ,one of them is Mr. Dhaval Modi at Hindu coulcil ,for whom i have high respect for his Seva. Let us all be positive and support Hindu Council. Thank you
Fagun Modi
Organising great events like exhibitions for Diwali (festival of light) for everyone. I have witnessed Australians taking lot of interest in these events strengthening the multicultural values.
Yogesh Bhatt
Great Organisation Always help to needy People and Respect the other Religions without any Discrimination. Proud to be a part of this organisation and also proud to be A Hindu .
Kiran Patel
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